Universities in the Presidency towns in India were established in ?
Answer: B
It was 1857.
Universities were set up at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras that year, following Wood's Despatch of 1854. They examined and affiliated colleges on the London model rather than teaching.
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The term Nirgrantha is associated with ?
Answer: C
It is associated with the Jainas.
Nirgrantha means free from bonds, and was the older name for the Jaina monks. Buddhist texts call Mahavira Nigantha Nataputta, and Ashoka's edicts name the nirgranthas among the sects he supported.
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The Turko-Afghan rule in India lasted for about ?
Answer: B
About three centuries.
From Qutbuddin Aibak's accession in 1206 to Ibrahim Lodi's defeat in 1526 - 320 years and five dynasties, the Slave kings, Khaljis, Tughlaqs, Sayyids and Lodis.
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Pulakesin II was the most famous ruler of ?
Answer: A
He was a Chalukya.
Pulakesin II of Badami ruled from 610 to 642, stopped Harsha on the Narmada and received a Persian embassy, before being defeated and killed by the Pallava Narasimhavarman I.
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Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of ?
Answer: C
It was in Travancore.
Velu Thampi Dalawa, the minister of Travancore, rose against the subsidiary alliance in 1808-09 and issued the Kundara Proclamation calling on the people to drive out the English. He killed himself rather than be taken.
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To which king does the Lion Capital at Sarnath belong?
Answer: C
It belongs to Ashoka.
The capital crowned his pillar at Sarnath, where the Buddha preached his first sermon. Adopted as the state emblem in 1950, it shows three of its four lions above a frieze with the Dharmachakra and the bull, horse, elephant and lion.
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In which year Swaraj Party formed ?
Answer: C
It was formed in 1922.
C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru founded the Swaraj Party at Gaya in December 1922 after the Congress rejected their proposal to contest the legislative councils. They wanted to enter the councils and obstruct from within rather than stay outside.
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Pulakesin II belongs to
Answer: C
He belongs to the Chalukyas.
Pulakesin II was the greatest of the Chalukyas of Badami, whose Aihole inscription by Ravikirti records his victory over Harsha.
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Which script of modern India have descended from the Sarda Script?
1. Gurmukhi
2. Dogri
3. Sindhi
Choose the correct option from the codes given below:
Answer: D
All three - Gurmukhi, Dogri and Sindhi.
Sharada developed in Kashmir about the eighth century from the western branch of Brahmi, and its descendants spread across the north-west: Gurmukhi and Landa in Punjab, Takri and its Dogri form in the hills, and the Khudabadi and Khojki scripts used for Sindhi.
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The ‘Saptanga Theory of State’ (Theory of Seven Limbs of the State) was put forward by :
Answer: A
It was Kautilya, in the Arthashastra.
The saptanga names seven limbs of the state - swami the ruler, amatya the ministers, janapada the territory and people, durga the fort, kosha the treasury, danda the army and mitra the ally - each dependent on the rest, so that weakness in one weakens the whole.
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